[mythtv-users] Stutter/pause and pixel debris when the programme moves from one to the next (Live TV)

[Lawrence Rust]

On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 23:22 +0100, Ben Lancaster wrote:
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> At first thought I wondered if it was IO related, but looking at the logs, I'm not so sure. Any ideas?

I reported the same problem, together with a patch here:
http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9823

Unfortunately it seems that it was rejected and the problem ignored.

Since then I have developed a workaround for fixes/0.24 and master that
significantly reduces the stutters during program switching.  You
download the patches from here:
http://www.softsystem.co.uk/download/mythtv/mythpatches-0.24.tar.bz2

The patch for current fixes/0.24 is:
mythpatches-0.24/mythtv-0.24/0038-mythplayer-Avoid-stutters-between-programs-and-when-.patch

and for git master is:
mythpatches-0.24/mythtv-master/0025-mythplayer-Avoid-stutters-between-programs-and-when-.patch

I have been using this patch on all my frontend systems since mid May
with no problems.  I have a mixture of combined fe/be and remote fe
systems over 100 Mb and 20 Mb powerline networks and all work well now.

I believe that the remaining issues are in the ringbuffer and related to
the change of filename when a program changes.

-- 
Lawrence